Part of finishing up our wedding video responsibilities included choosing photos of each of us as children for the obligatory “before they met” montage. This post is dedicated to the adorable little Spanish girl that became my wife.

In Spain, baby girls get their ears pierced more or less immediately. As far as babies go, Marga was quite pretty. Perhaps I’m biased.

I think this is my favorite photo. What a dirty little digger playing in the not-yet-paved streets in Extremadura.

No doubt just before this photo was taken, she had been specifically instructed to NOT touch the ceramic rooster.

Fairy tale princess ready for Carnival.

Same dress, new hat, more glitter, posing with her sister, Belén, for a professional photographer.

Looking good with a handbag.

Great smiles.

First Communion.

Posing with the mermaid in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In Spain, they don’t do these funny hats for graduation, so when Marga got a diploma in England and had the opportunity to have a graduation ceremony, she took the opportunity to wear a goofy graduation hat.

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